The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 25, sentence 3
We cannot successfully oppose them, but in the defense of the fatherland we can die.”
Who acts: We · What happens: not oppose, die · To what, where: dogs
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 25. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 oppose | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 oppose | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 oppose | advmod |
| 4 | successfully | successfully | ADV | _ | 5 oppose | advmod |
| 5 | oppose | oppose | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 oppose | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 die | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 die | cc |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 defense | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 defense | det |
| 11 | defense | defense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 die | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 fatherland | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fatherland | det |
| 14 | fatherland | fatherland | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 defense | nmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 die | nsubj |
| 16 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 die | aux |
| 17 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 oppose | conj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 die | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not oppose | can | We | dogs = dog | successfully property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient | |||
| 2 | die | can | we | in the defense of the fatherland | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in defense=Attribute |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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